Leftovers: Kimmel Center Flooded, Chris Webber Annoying, And Other Things That Happen All The Time

• The Kimmel Center will have to postpone and move some concerts because “gallons and gallons” of water were discharged all over the Perelman Theater. Man, with this and Barbaro dying, it’s been a bad week for rich people. [Inquirer]

• Chris Webber says he’s glad he’s an ex-Sixer. The feeling is completely mutual, Chris. [Inquirer]

• A video that shows a family with two gay parents is causing people who hate gays to go nuts. Awesome. I love this shit. Quote from one of the parents: “It’s very dangerous for a third grader to hear all this.” Almost as dangerous as you being a parent. [KYW 1060]

• Rafael Robb and his wife were destined to have one of the two murder the other one, or something like that. [Inquirer]

• Pat Gillick chats about the upcoming season, Chase Utley, et cetera. And there’s even an MP3 version up because I whined about there only being a WMA file. Daniel McQuade: Fighting… for you. [Philly.com]

• Freddie Mitchell introduced Chase Utley to his new wife. I miss Freddie Mitchell. [The 700 Level]

Washington Post Declares Horse Who Won A Race More Important Than Ex-Congressman Who Happened To Be A Jesuit Priest

From yesterday’s Washington Post, courtesy of Slate:

Drinan = Barbaro? [Slate]

DiCicco, Kenney Aim For Crucial Swing Vote

Over at Amen, Wook — This is why I love blogging. “Wook” on first reference. — noticed a few campaign signs for Jim Kenney and Frank DiCicco at a formerly-empty building at 714 South Street.

Yes. 714 South Street. Former Home of Club Kama Sutra.

This city is a wonderful place sometimes.

BREAKING NEWS! SHOCKING REVELATION! WHAT GENER WAS TALKING ABOUT FINALLY REVEALED! [AMEN]
Archives: Club Kama Sutra

No Driver Is Safe From Drug-Addicted Mormon Sons Of Andy Reid

Last night, not one but two Reid sons got into car accidents. Let’s recap it, charticle style:

• Garrett Reid, 24, allegedly sped through a red light in his SUV on Germantown Pike in Plymouth Meeting Township around 2:30 p.m., hitting a 55-year-old woman’s car. She was airlifted to the hospital. Police also said they found hypodermic needles on him, but no drugs.
• Meanwhile, 21-year-old Britt Reid was allegedly involved in a road rage incident with a “local carpenter” in his 20s. The carpenter told police they were giving each other the finger while driving down Matson Ford Road in West Conshohocken. At a stop light, the man told police, Reid got out, threatened him and flashed a gun before driving away.

Police, naturally, caught up with Britt Reid after meeting him at the site of Garrett Reid’s car accident.

Police: Needles Found In Andy Reid’s Son’s SUV After Accident [NBC 10]

Barbaro Messageboard Posters Surprisingly Self-Aware

From Laurie in Minnesota, on the Tim Woolley Racing Barbaro messagebaord:

I remember last summer I gave you guys a bit of a chuckle when I likened our “condition” to that of the charature that Richard Dreyfuss plays in “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” Our families starring at us in disbelief as we carve images of Barbaro out of mashed potatoes…LOL. Being inexplicably drawn to something and have absolutley no idea how we came to be here, and everyone else around us thinks we are coo-coo.

Someone stated earlier this week that after months of wondering about this same thing, they just decided to relax and just go with it. Same with me. I cant explain it. I’m here and thats it.

Which brings me to an important point about something that happen to me in my grieving sessions yesterday evening. Like all of you, I am experiencing deep deep emotional pain. After watching Larry King, I was still extremely distraught. I was alone last night as my husband was at work. In my grief, I said to myself, “OKAY THAT’S IT….I’M DONE!! I just want to go back to my normal life …they way I was before I even knew Barbaro!. I am walking away from this..I just want to forget about all of this! Why did this happen to me??! WHY!!! Where is the lesson here? I am going to just fade away back to where I belong”.

Okay, it’s official. Barbaro is ruining peoples’ lives.

But, at least she’s gotten off the Barbaro wago… oh.

WOW huh? That’s me up there saying those things. I am a Barbaro Ambassador for the state of MN no less….Fortunantly I snapped myself back into reality and realized immediatley how selfish and immature this was..but the feelings cant be denied. I had to let myself work through them.

Yeah, I always thought it was pretty selfish to stop caring about a horse you saw run on TV once to make yourself feel much better.

In other news, they’re planning on building a museum in honor of Barbaro. (Well, and other local horses, too.) I can’t wait until my tax dollars pay for a building honoring a fucking horse that didn’t even win the Triple Crown.

Barbaro inspires idea for a museum [Inquirer]

2006 Good Year To Watch Me; 2007, Not So Much

The Daily News‘ “21 on the spot” feature hitting newsstands today, and, unlike last year, I am not on the list. (It must have been all the weight I gained.)

Okay, so they wouldn’t put me on two years in a row. (Why they put me on it last year is a question to be left to the philosophers.) But that didn’t stop yours truly from still managing to spread the Kerri-Lee love in the DN.

Quote: “Any show that has Jennaphr Frederick and Kerri-Lee Halkett in skirts and leather boots is a damn fine news show.” — Philadelphia Weekly blogger Dan McQuade, after the Jan. 22 debut.

Damn. Had I known I was going to be quoted, I would have called them “fuck-me boots.”

21 on the spot [Daily News]
Jan. 23: Leather Boots Put Fox 29 News On Top

Finally, The Barbaro Snuff Film

Video: Barbaro Euthanized [ClipBlast]

Michael Nutter: The Candidate Who Will Send An Old Man To The Circus If It Will Help Pass A Bill

Political dealmaking in Philadelphia is kind of strange. But I didn’t really know it was this strange. From Jason Fagone’s excellent article about Michael Nutter in Phillymag:

So in 1997 and 1998, over the “furious” objections of Street, Nutter wrote a new set of same-sex bills and helped push them through a process so contentious that at one point, the bills’ allies sent an enfeebled Thacher Longstreth to the Spectrum for the entire day just to keep him away from Street. (Longstreth sat in the cheap seats, watching the Ringling Bros. circus.) The bills eventually passed after a marathon Council session that Nutter calls “one of the biggest public showdowns in recent history.”

Well, I’m glad they passed the bill, but it’s pretty cruel to make someone — especially a feeble old man — watch a circus. And they didn’t even spring for good seats!

Michael Nutter’s Dilemma [Phillymag]

Keystone Cops: Keystone Cops

• The moniker for this feature doesn’t really fit most of the time. Police officers are generally hard-working people who do a fine job. But every once in a while, the planets align and cops really do whatever it is the Keystone Cops did. (I’ve never seen one of those movies, obvs.) And I don’t know if this was a plot for a Keystone Cops movie, but it really should have been: Just two days before his promotion to police chief of Wall Township, N.J., Bernard Sullivan was arrested for a DUI. In Wall Township. Whoops! [AP/NBC 10]

• Animal rights activists are protesting Penn because they want to save humans by testing on animals. Or they don’t do it humane enough or something, with four times the violations of any other group. [KYW 1060]

• A Pennsylvania woman has been told to move her alpaca shed 18 feet. [AP/Philly.com]

• Some dude in Jersey shot a horse with an arrow and killed him. No, it wasn’t me. I prefer to slaughter my horses with machetes. [6 ABC]

Can The Wii Workout Reality Show Be Far Behind?

Mickey DeLorenzo, the man who lost weight by playing Wii Sports every day for six weeks, has turned his clever little blog post into a full-fledged media onslaught. He’s been interviewed by the BBC, NBC 10, the Inky, the India Times and, least importantly, me.

And now he has a book deal. He has a book deal from a company that one represented Kafka and Sartre.

I’m assuming the book will be titled Can You Believe I Got A Freaking Book Deal Out Of This? The Wii Sports Diet, but that’s just conjecture.

This is awesome. Sometimes things happen that just make you realize what a fantastic, ridiculous world we live in, and this is one of them. Lovely.

Wii Sports Experiment, from Digg to book deal [WiiNintendo.net]
Jan. 19: How I Learned To Stop Running And Just Play Wii Sports